Install Apatana Studio on Fedora 9

Installation of Apatana in Detail

1. Download zip file from this location(http://www.aptana.com/studio/download)
File name:Aptana_Studio_Setup_Linux_1.2.7.zip
2. Then uncompress the .zip file. and copy the resulting ‘aptana’ folder under ‘/home/siwan’.(siwan is my username for fedora, you have replace your username)
3. Install xulrunner (for install xulrunner user following command, Became root first)
yum install xulrunner
or follow this step
Down load xulrunner from this url
http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/xulrunner/releases/1.8.1.3/contrib/linux-i686/xulrunner-1.8.1.3.en-US.linux-i686-20080128.tar.gz
Unarchive using file roller to get a ‘xulrunner’ folder.
Open a terminal, and type the following commands, changing the path in the last line ie nigel to your username.
(for install xulrunner user following command, Became root first)

    mkdir /usr/lib/xulrunner
    cp -r /home/nigel/Download/xulrunner/* /usr/lib/xulrunner

4. Create a new file called say ‘aptana.sh’ and make it executable
use this command for make file executable.
Became root user first.
cd /home/siwan/aptana/
chmod +x aptana.sh
5. Copy the following into that text file

#!/bin/sh
MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME=/usr/lib/xulrunner
if [ $LD_LIBRARY_PATH ]; then
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
else
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME
fi
export MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME LD_LIBRARY_PATH
/home/siwan/aptana/AptanaStudio

Then run the aptana.sh file.
Enjoy with Aptana Studio

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